What you’ll be doing
as an Environmental Initiatives Project Officer
You’ll oversee project work plans, ensuring activities are delivered on time, within budget, and provide meaningful benefits. You will also work closely with the team to meet organisational priorities, track progress, and capture the positive impacts of each project. This role is integral to addressing the pressures on our rivers, driving collaborative actions, and building sustainable partnerships to secure the long-term health of these vital natural resources.
1. Support the end-to-end delivery of catchment & nature-based solutions, tracking that all actions are completed according to the agreed scope, timelines and budget. Proactively identifying risks & developing mitigation plans to discuss with the Project Manager; ensuring these are implemented in a timely manner.
2. Point of contact for project delivery-related matters, facilitating collaboration and ensuring the successful implementation of projects.
3. Maintain a detailed record to track project milestones and provide regular updates on delivery status, risks and successes to wider stakeholders.
4. Track the project budget and associated spend, providing regular updates to the Project Manager.
5. Regularly review projects to ensure activities adhere to relevant regulations; support with regular H&S checks of suppliers and partners to ensure compliance.
6. Work with internal teams to ensure alignment of outputs; clear and consistent communication is important, not to disrupt delivery timelines.
Base location: Hybrid - Clearwater Court - RG1 8DB.
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:
7. Proven ability to build and manage productive relationships with diverse stakeholders, preferably environmental groups, councils or regulators.
8. Experience organising and facilitating workshops, consultations, and engagement activities to align stakeholders and gather input effectively.
9. Strong communication skills, with experience in tailoring messages to a variety of audiences, including technical experts, community groups, and decision-makers.
10. Demonstrable experience in planning, delivering, and monitoring environmental or water-related projects, and knowledge of the project lifecycle.
11. Experience managing project budgets effectively, ensuring progress is tracked and detailed updates are provided.
12. Be fully competent at using the appropriate company IT systems and Office software.
13. Be a graduate or have the equivalent in experience, and would consider an HNC or above in a relevant subject.
Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:
14. Experience in working at a catchment scale to develop and implement plans that improve river health, water quality, and catchment resilience is desirable.
15. Experience in incorporating Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) into project planning and delivery, ensuring positive outcomes for habitats and species, is desirable.
What’s in it for you?
16. Salary is £45,000 to £55,000 per annum.
17. 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
18. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
19. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
20. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.